Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance:
A unique collaboration between the private sector, NGOs and academia, working to demonstrate the benefits of pre-event investment to treat the cause of flooding, as opposed to just post-event relief of symptoms.
Flood Resilience Game! Players experience the complex nature of flood resilience, building their understanding and improving decision making.
Collaborating with Practical Action Peru to address the underlying drivers of flood risk in Peru’s Rimac River watershed.
Measuring flood resilience:
IIASA RISK scientists are working with the Alliance and four additional NGOs to test the Zurich Flood
Resilience Measurement Framework and Tool in
70 communities across eight countries
worldwide.
This project is generating empirical evidence on the sources of resilience –
something which has
never been done before.
Mapping flood resilience in rural Nepal by linking with NGO processes and generating freely available, digital information.